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[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What do you think the difference between "media silence" and "ministers not making statements to the media" is?

[–] bartolomeo@suppo.fi 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's not really about what I think.

Ordering media silence means the media has been ordered not to report on something, like the Chinese media and declining economic indicators. That's not the case here.

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 3 points 10 months ago

That would be a government enforced media silence - media silence just means people not talking to the media or the media not reporting on a subject, it doesn't require a direct order from the government to the media to not report on something. Media might create a voluntary silence, where they agree not to report on a subject, or might have a silence pushed on them, like football's "silenzio stampa", where teams will refuse to talk to or interact with the press when they're unhappy with reporting.